The Minimum Wage Gaming PC
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Meet our minimum wage gaming PC! We set aside a budget of $350 to buy a rig we thought would hold up to modern 1080p gaming, content creation, and other workstation applications. This rig boasts an Intel Core i7 4930K, GTX 970, and 48GB of DDR3. Let's see how it performs!
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No one should be knocking this… we have all been there before where we just wanted SOMETHING and price was an major factor… I love Greg realizes this and tries to help out everyone… I’d never hate on someone for doing their best and “treating” themselves
Yip...we can only do what we can... Why knock someone for that
I have no fight with that, I do it myself! When I want an upgraded system I get the parts one at a time when prices are good for what I want.
this system should be worth $200.
Who is knocking it?
@@tomr3422 that would be me
This is literally my build that I made almost 9 years ago, and I’m STILL USING. The GTX 970 was the one of the greatest value cards I ever purchased. It’s still able to run games at 1440p (depending on detail settings).
I don’t play AAA games so this is probably why I managed to get so much mileage out of the thing. But for someone who doesn’t play AAA games, this PC will be more than enough.
Same. Last months found a case on hard rubbish. It was a similar build. I was happy to fix it but was saddened someone just put it on the curb. It’s gonna go to a good home
I'm actually surprised that minimum wage in Florida is higher than the Federal Minimum Wage.
The retirees hate it because their brain is still in 1985, everyone else is giving everything they earn to the people running the retiree's bank.
That is truly crazy haha
yikes!😮😬
🤫Don’t mention it. They might realize and lower it.
It doesn't matter what the minimum wage is because most of the employees are servers who work off of tips and get lower than minimum wage hourly pay
You could also upgrade the GPU in a few months to something like a RTX 2070 Super or a RX 5700XT (If you're willing to spend nearly a whole paycheck on it).
48GB of RAM for $395 is a great system along with all those hard drive bays. It can make a great home server for years to come.
why tf do people need a "home server"
@@reuven2010 for hobbies, it provides a lot of storage and compatibility to create servers for games, and other applications. its also a hobby to mess around with home servers.
@@reuven2010 mass storage, literally the only reason. or whatever else. a home server is literally just a server, so you could probably have your "home server" as a minecraft server or whatever else. most of the time though its mass storage as a backup incase your computer OS/storage dies on you.
Being an avid simulator game enthusiast like American Truck Simulator and Farming Simulator, a rig like this would be ideal to start with
Upgraded my pc to high end & cant even touch it because i would be too tired after work
:-(
same here bro 10 hours of night shift took all my energy.
@@VietboyGamerUSA I play game and watch movies with friends during my night/afternoon shift job 💀
@@VietboyGamerUSA12hr shift, 6 days a week
Coffee is a beautiful thing
really good tip, reinstalling windows when buying a used pc from a third party vendor. It's something many people can overlook
If you stick that build on an older Dell 21" screen running 1440x900, you can really pick up some of that lost performance compared to newer GPUs.
When I was working at minimum wage, I bought each piece of my build over the course of a few months, as I didn't make enough to buy it all flat out and pay my bills.
I did / am doing the same but I got screwed over somewhere in the middle so the build remains incomplete because inflation happened and my car broke and my job started cancelling shifts and the icing one the cake, the psu (which was one of the few used parts) was non functional...
So yea, by the time it's finished it's already past its expiry date lol
Seemed like a good strategy at first but I got unlucky and everything had to go wrong at the same time half way through
same though luckily when I graduated my parents bought me a dell pc that had a i5 6400 and a gt 730 in it I gutted the dell and upgraded bought a rx 570 and a i5 11400. The rx570 still going strong though trying to get a rx6700xt
@@A_Chocolate_Cookie psu the one part u always want new, worst case scenario it kills every other working part in ur pc because u wanted to save a couple bucks
@@Deadlines-X well they apparently have safety measures in place like over current protection and the like and these psu often advertise "10 year warranty" "Premium Japanese capacitors" and all that so it felt like it should be a relatively risk free used purchase
but apparently thats all baloney
@@A_Chocolate_Cookie is the psu still under warranty, maybe the previous owner still has the reciept or something. Or you can at leat mail the manufacturer and ask if they can do anything. Its worth a shot especially in these rough times
Got a new build and bought a new windows key from your sponsor. Was quick and simple and was very surprised it actually worked ahah. Thanks
Yep, I usually ignore whatever a TH-camr is shilling, but the code was cheap and worked
*laughs in KeyMS*
Got my gtx 970 as a first gaming card for $75 last august and it’s held up really well. Im looking for an upgrade but this will be used in smaller systems for awhile
Had my GTX 970 from around 2014/15 until today, so yes, it is good GPU, but it start to show its age when you try to play newer games with decent frame rate.
In Horison Zero Dawn I will get 30-40 FPS @1440P (had to use 2560 x 1440 instead of 3440 x 1440 which is my displays native res.) and with upscaling from FSR active. Otherwise it get into a very low 5-20 FPS that is much less playable frame rates with stuttering.
I scored a GTX 1660 Super on eBay a few months ago for around $120 shipped, that's going in my living room VR machine. There's some good deals on 1070 and 1660 cards these days, they perform similarly and plenty good for anything as long as you're not looking to run crazy resolutions or detail settings. I haven't looked at the used AMD card market but I suspect a 6600 XT or 6700 XT could be had for a good price and will serve you well.
Gtx 970 is certainly a decent card for many games still. But I do see other cards coming down in price as well. I picked up an i5 4690k, 16gb ram and gtx 1060 6gb (that extra 2gb vram is critical for newer games!) for 220$
@viperpit I think most popular card is now gtx 1650 (yes slower). I do see shops selling gtx 1650 gamer pcs literally everywhere (some of them even stil
the gddr5 version, you really shouldn’t buy any new gpu without gddr6 today)
@@viperpit2075has been for a long time
The difference in salaries/wages between first world and third world countries are so much. Even the top government officials in my place are not earning that much, they usually start at around $40 per day, and to have that kind of job, you still have to study like 5-8 hours per day for at least half a year after college graduation.
Oh my never thought would see a Corsair Obsidian 500d case in this day and age lol. I still use mine and it's a very good case imo.
Yeap.
As all the good cases of this type,you could remove the unneeded drive cage,in order to improve the air streaming.
I am using a Corsair 780T, hoping to add some mods to it to make it look better like a PSU Shroud and maybe a better HDD Cage.
I am poor and am still running the X58 platform with an overclocked x5675 @ 4.5Ghz all cores and an RTX 2060 Super which makes the CPU on par with i7's from 2 generations ahead. One thing to remember with X58, X79 and X99. They still have upgrade paths as you can swap out the 4 core 8 thread i7 and upgrade it with a Xeon with a lot more cores, and depending on your Mobo and CPU choice, you have overclocking to help you along.
those 4th gen i7's still hold up pretty well. i just replaced my 4770k + 1060 6gb a a few months ago with a 3060 and 5800x (not happy with the temps on this thing)
nice man! I went from an i5 6600k + 1070 to a i9 10900k and 3080 ti
@@SpaceGamblerJR i've been considering that. im using a Noctua NH-U12S with an additional cpu fan and the temps are all over the place. it hits 55 doing simple web browsing in chrome. hits around 80 in games, sometimes way higher up to 90 at certain points.
I would try using Curve Optimizer on your 5800x. My 5800x3d with CO -30 only hits about 82c during cinebench. Only using 212 evo to cool it. Without it was nearing 90c
Had a similar update but got a 3080 ti instead of 3060 but I paid 3k for it😭
Congrats on the upgrade. The 5800X will boost until it hits thermal limit, especially if you are running PBO2 on it. You either need a good 280mm or 360mm AIO, or a beast of an air cooler if you want maximum performance and to leave PBO2 on. You can get away with a smaller air cooler if you turn off PBO2 and/or undervolt the CPU with Ryzen Master software from AMD. You should still get good performance and high frame rates even if you turn off PBO2. The cpu should still be hitting its maximum speed on your 2 best cores when gaming.
Theres nothing like an asus P9x79 motherboard. Dang amazing to see that exact rig still in use honestly. Came across those very builds at an ewaste place back in 2019/2020 and dismantled a few of em and picked up a ton of those components. Only have a couple of the psu's left over. Good stuff.
That model RM750 is fairly "old". Circa 2016 IIRC, but still very popular from what I've seen. Love the video!
That i7 is from 2011, it is the bottleneck of that system. That 970 is one of the later models, I think it came out around 2015-16.
@@PurpleKnightmare Wrong and wrong, 4930K came out Sept 2013 the EVGA card came out Sept 2014, and no the bottleneck is the 970 not the CPU do your research before answering questions LOL.
@@PurpleKnightmare 4930k is enough even for a gtx 1080
@@Mvp-AngelOfGod LOL sure, sure.
I like this vid a lot. Very real world.
Thoughts on a follow up for '1 week pay packet' with ye olde favourite; the liquidation sale business PC + a GPU? A similar walkthrough of pitfalls and positives of things to look out for.
Yep! Can definitely put something like this together!
I have a friend who i gave my old 970 to my friend (the exact same one in the video) And she runs Cyberpunk at 1080p on medium-low settings and gets about 30-40 fps in most areas. closer to 60 out in the desert. Its still a very capable card. I mean in modern warfare 2. You can get about 70-80 fps on medium settings if you lower the render resolution 10-15% at 1080 and you can still be competitive in multiplayer. Just dont expect it to do well in warzone. Dont have the Vram to handle Maps that large
In Texas the minimum wage is still $ 7.25/Hour. However when most businesses reopened after the shutdown, they started paying $10-$12 for retail, fast food workers, etc
In Malta we get paid 6$ an hour at the airport
@@Ladioz HOWWWW
@@salty5309 because we are too shy to ask for more salary
@@salty5309 The better question is how can Americans get paid so much and still complain.
@@jozefdobrovodsky2932 we get paid more in terms of other countries but our cost of living is also higher more then other countries so were still in the same boat
Is insane, here in brazil this pc would cost roughly 3 months of minimun wage
The struggle of third world countries gamers.
It's a BIOS feature. Both my personal PC and work laptop are on 24/7, so I've enabled an option in both BIOSes to auto-start if there were power shortages in the grid.
sometimes this can be a problem, if you live in an area were the power dips in/out quite a bit having the computer auto restart after a power outage can be a problem. I would rather the power AC stabilize then restart the computer, just my personal choice.
I’ve upgraded a few PCs from the Ivy Bridge platform to boot from a NVME drive on a riser card, it’s a dirt cheap upgrade that really improves the experience of using the system. You just have to use a UEFI mod tool to hack the BIOS to add the NVME boot driver.
Picked up a HP Z620 workstation recently locally for £100, came with an 8 core / 16 thread sandy bridge EP (so has USB 3.0), but switched it out to an Intel Xeon E5-2690-V1 (£28 on Ebay), which boosts to about 3.5ghz all core, also 8 core 16 thread. 64Gb DDR3 1600 ECC RAM Quad channel, X99 platform (4 slots spare), pulled the AMD Fire Pro V3900 out and plugged in a GTX 1080 I picked up for £140 (system has a 800w PSU and comes pre-fitted with 2x 6 pin PCI-E cables), and added a 512Gb 2.5" SSD for £30. £298 all in, and I have a space Fire Pro V3900 (good for testing systems) and the original Xeon CPU which is probably worth about £15... It has fantastic airflow, and has 3 hot-swappable SATA drive bays inside. Handles for carrying, I think it was a great find...
Yep that’s a heck of a find! A lot of folks tend to overlook the workstation stuff.
Workstations are the way to go, I'm running a Precision T7810 I got for $100. Came with dual high core Xeons, 32gb DDR4 quad ch, 500gb ssd, 3TB HDD, Quadro M4000, 685w PSU. I swapped out the 2 Xeons for 1 e5 2643 v3, sold the Quadro for $100 on ebay, and found a GTX 970 for $40. I mostly play Destiny 2 Med/Hi Settings 1200p monitor 75-100fps.
Sounds like you got a great deal... Congratulations 🎉
My first actually gaming capable PC was a X58 based HP Z400 in 2013/2014 with a Xeon W3520 (i7-920), 12GB RAM and GTX 660.
My main PC is still on X58 platform but with a 6c/12t Xeon and overclock capable motherboard.
I do also have a Lenovo ThinkStation S30 (X79/C602 based) with a 8c/16t E5-2690 (3.3GHz all core turbo and up to 3.8GHz single core), 64GB ECC Reg memory
Point of order, your Z620 is X79, just like this system in video. Z440/Z640 X99 systems are available for similar prices, but you will be looking for good prices on DDR4 Ram. Or you can go Lenovo P410/P510 (Micro ATX or Full ATX) and get X99 as well. Look for deals. If gaming, resist the urge to go past 6 cores, the 6 cores have higher clocks and only cost £10/$15. Do find the 6 cores with more Cache.
Man, I love the albums you have on your wall. Sempiternal is such a great album!
I'm from the Netherlands and if i would buy a 2nd hand pc and the dude wanted to meet on a Wallmart parking it would be big red flag for me. Here its normal to go to the sellers house and test out the pc. A while back i did build budget game pc's for fun and sold around 20 to 30 pc's everyone was welcome in my house to test it out. Funny to see how things can be so diffrent in a almost simular culture.
It's the same here in the UK. I buy and sell a lot of PC parts and would be very suspicious if they insisted on meeting in a public place. If you know where someone lives they're far less likely to try to scam you, since nobody wants a disgruntled customer turning up on their doorstep.
I used to buy sell and trade hardware in the US, Here a fast food place or even a parking lot is pretty common, I did go to a couple of homes to pick up stuff, It was always wierd, and most of the time it was bait and switch, IE buy a prestine GTX580 and you get to the house and its a GTX580 cooler that is mangled stuck on a GTX560, or something completely crazy. Most of the time I liked McDonalds to meet at.
Sadly here in the us tweakers will give u an address of an abandoned house or something along those lines and then rob you when u show up to meet them
Hey Greg, Awesome content as always. I recently built and sold a rig in this price range. Ryzen 3 1200 AE, 16gb 3000Mhz DDR4, RX 570 8GB, B450M mobo, 600w Thermaltake Smart 80+ White PSU, Cooler Master case, 256gb SSD w/ Windows 10 Pro, and 3TB HDD. I was pleasantly surprised at how well it performed in 1080p gaming!
Ryzen 5600 is $100 by itself brand new, if you can score a good b450 or something motherboard for $40-60 you would be well on your way as well.
I was just looking for a friend and Micro Center is running a deal for $110 on a 3600 + B450 board. Crazy deal
take a ryzen, no matter which one...3600 3100 5600...a a320 board at least...20$...better than the pc in the video!
100? Hahahahahah.
U can get a Ryzen 5500 for $99 brand new!
@@CougarCat21 if you happen to be near a Microcenter its $89 right now. Also they are doing a fire sale, ASUS motherboard for $50 with a 12600k 12700k or 12900k. Thats only $300 for the 12600k and a ASUS Prime A or P or M TUF DDR4 or DDR5 motherboard. That's nuts. With a good 140mm air cooler (DeepCool Lucifer v2) I was doing around 5ghz all core on mine (P cores only, to keep the ring bus speed up, and I'm on win10 still). I think the Prime A at least has 13th gen support if that's your thing
There are many places where minimum wage is $7.25 and $11-12 is not even enough to live off of if you have bills to pay.
"Land of the free" my ass
rent in those places is also like 500$
Let alone rent/water/trash/electricity
@@TheFalseShepphard Go get a skill that people want to pay for, level up etc. That’s the solution.
@@zygi22 Ah yes the age old argument. I want to see you getting a skill while simultaneously working 2 minimum wage jobs just to make a living. Even here in Germany with far more social policies this can be a problem.
Also the economy needs people who work in these positions.
I got B450 mb, 1300x, 700W power, 16gt ddr4, 380X gpu (similiar to 970, a tad slower) 200Gt m.2 asembled in a case and working for 250 euros. Ofcourse depends on a region, but fairly good low end PC's you can get under 300 too.
All the parts don't need to be bought all at once. Can be picked up piece at a time and not only do you build a new PC, you build the excitement.
Yep, of course!
I like that idea.
It's like slowly paying it off without the Interest fees.
yeah, I had to upgrade my pc I think over 2 months or so. Had a no post issue which I did fix after upgrading the motherboard and the case (I suspect the GPU was the issue which I did fix but didn't want it to happen again) cost me £445 in total for a rig with a 2060 gpu, AMD Ryzen 5 5600g, 16 GB RAM, Asus Prime CR20M-K, 550W PSU. So not a bad set up
@@leadhunter14 I have a Ryzen 5 5600G system myself. 16gigs of ram, 4Tb of space, 750w PSU but I'm using my older GPU which is an MSI R7 370 on an ASUS B-450 motherboard.
Keep it up Greg
Thanks for watching!
This is an amazing video!
Something most people can actually use and take away value from, instead of regular random mid/high end PC builds i normally see.
Damn in my country minimum wage is like a 1.5$ but some thing are a little cheaper than in us and some are more expensive am currently thinking about learning anoother language to move to another country to look for a decent job that pays well
What country do u live in?
@@aaronprimus1300 Bosnia and Herzegovina
wow, Bosnia and Herzegovina sounds like a great place to start a business in. I should go there 🤔
@@bengraham5699 yeah its beautiful country and everything is good but only thing is jobs its kinda corrupted as example i know a guy finished university very smart guy but he didnt get the job he wanted because of corruption.
@@vikonemedia1 Similar here in Serbia, but since a lot of people live with their parents, you can put aside money for couple of months and build a decent $500-600 rig.
Great video!!! Approaching things with the "band for the buck" philosophy is the way I run my PC repair and upgrade business. People sometimes call me "king of the budget box">... Keep up the excellent work Sir!
Eerily similar to my first PC build from 2014 which was a X79 platform with a 4930k, 32Gb RAM, corsair PSU and a Obsidian 750D case.
Two good tips for buying things used and wanted to try them: Sheetz - Sheetz has many outdoor outlets to allow you to plug in and test components. Another: UPS. Bring a UPS! Should be enough power to test something in your trunk or car!
The "TRULY" Minimum wage PC is...
Pirated Windows
No case
Motherboard on motherboard box
Monitor on cloths bin
On kitchen table, coffee table, or laying on the floor
Fan is a house fan...
Wow a NCIX built computer no doubt from their US division. This computer is about the same age as Linus's LMG
I actually find it to be a hobby of mine buying and or trading older platforms and components from around my local area. I put together what works from that into discarded cases granted some are better than others and there is a lower floor to how to how many generations old the systems components can be for gaming. But 900 series lol even 700 can run abandoned ware games and like Greg said newer titles with lower settings. I donate alot of these systems and or make specific systems for certain decades of gaming as well. As always awesome content and absolutely loved this video 🤓🤓🤓
I still play 1080p with i7-4770 and 1660Super and with the budget I have I can't complain about the performance
Greg is looking after the working class in this video.
This is always a great alternative, while I already have personal rig, I still do look for decent hardware. In December I purchased a PC for about $178 on Ebay. The PC had the exact same mobo and cpu as in the video, with 64gb of ram, a rm1000w psu, Asus GTX 660 and 2 220gb SSD's. at that price a newer gpu like a 1070 or 1080 could be bought and put in the rig and stay under that $350 threshold, making a very solid gaming or work rig. Greg has some great points about budget preassembled builds.
Finding deals like that are really hit and miss. The route I would go is to find an office or home pc for next to nothing that has decent specs, something with a Core i5 or i7 ( I see these from $50 all the way down to free, being thrown out), add a cheap GPU and PS, and you're off and running. The key to making this work on the cheap is finding a pc with Windows already on it---if you have to add a storage drive and a fresh copy of Windows, your costs are going to go up
I managed to get a decent amount of free storage getting thrown out and an x58 based pc. It's pretty interesting what people end up throwing away.
damn, $11 an hour. Here in the maldives if you keep up for 8 hours a day for 30 days.. you could live so comfortably. that's 40k in MVR
I'm just wondering about that case from Corsair. I love those type of cases. All in all a great starter PC to get your foot in the door and understanding the ins and outs of PC gaming.
i think its called the corsair obsidian. i have one sitting in the closet waiting for parts for a nas. i love it but god is it heavy lol.
I just shopped for a budget gaming PC for a friend recently. In my market up in Canada, it's actually was generally better to go with a full PC than components. By the time you gathered everything you need, it was more expensive than the all assembled rigs. I ended up grabbing an i7 6700 with 16GB of DDR4, GTX 1060 6GB, 500GB Samsung SSD, 1TB HDD, WiFi card all for $260
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i like all y6ur unique videos, im hooked on watching all your vids.👍👍
What about Xeons instead of the 4930k? Old Xeons might do well I think. Though I would think a Ryzen 3600 or a 5600 with a B450 mobo, might be better value.
I put a Xeon E3 1280V2 (Ivy Bridge, roughly equivalent to Core i7 3770K) in my old HTPC years ago and paired it with a GTX 1050 Ti. It ran great. It actually still runs great but I don't use it for any gaming. I actually opted for a Xeon when upgrading my Core i3 2120T because Xeons were basically the same chip but went for less. I agree the Ryzen is better value.
I like meeting in reserve meeting rooms in the public library. Public place, wireless network (mine has public network ports), limited time, power outlets for desktop PCs. It works for me.
I'm so jealous of working highschoolers nowadays with a higher minimum wage. My highschool nephew makes $12/hr as a cashier & he's already saved up $5000 in his first year. I didn't get my 1st job till college (2010) and at that point I was already paying rent, utilities, car, phone & medical bills with $7.25/hr.
Very few people actually make federal min wage. If anyone is over 25 and working a min wage job it is 100% their fault.
@@dblgonzo to be fair, not a lot of job opportunities nowadays. And even then internships exist and people go to college in different times
You have to "work" 8 hours per day with 1 hour additional for lunch. That's 9 hours. Pay per day would be $88.
Man, here in Brazil the minimum wage is U$1,15 a hour (R$6,00), here you'll need to work 11 months, without any expenses, to be able to buy a RTX 4090, because monthly, the minimum wage is R$1320 and the VGA costs R$14000. A cheap R5 5600 is R$1000. Being brazilian and like technology is really difficult!
Lol i raise you been in Venezuela where the minimum wage is 0.20 us the hour and everithing in the world of technology is over priced in here a rtx 3060 is 600 Us. i just upgrade to a rx 580 4gb and it took 6 months of savings and i and well above the minimun wage. Yeah livin in Latin America is hard but well at least we can see you tube and dream
We really doing this? Ok!
Here (Iran), minimum wage is 3.5 USD per day (the USD to IRR ratio has experienced a 40x decrease over last 15 years).
So you'll have to work every day even on weekends for 100 days to rack up 350 bucks and that's without accounting for other life expenses.
Well, the conclusion is, live in the first world is really easy for tech enthusiasts! Hehe
"Live Free or Die" means those in New Hampshire making $7.25 an hour can't afford this system without another 30% price cut.
The main thing is that gaming pc ownership is available to all 👍🥰😇and not just the uber elitists with a high end i9 13900ks w/ RTX4090 GPU build budget 😡🥵
Awesome video and awesome BMTH vinyl in the back :D
In NC it's $7.25!
same in TX
😲WTF, 17 year olds (minimum age for Full Time employment) get paid $12.36 here in NSW Australia & even under 16's working part time get $7.87
Great deal. As is that 4930k could be bumped up to near 4.4ghz oc on air. Then save up a bit over another 3 months or so and get RX 6600XT or GTX 1660ti. With a good GPU upgrade this machine still has lots left to offer.
Trivia: in our country (Philippines), the minimum wage is around $1.33 per hour
Is it easy to find work?
@@i9smurfs69 yeah, a lot of companies here have the audacity to demand a college degree for a job that barely makes more than the minimum
@@nrgamingtech2797 just about every company today writes "college degree" into the job-application, just for the giggles. It can be completely ignored by the applicant.
Hey Greg, try running Odyssey with low latency set to ultra in the control panel. For some reason it seems to dramatically reduce stutter, if not entirely solve the stuttering entirely.
This goes for everyone, it's kinda shocking how smooth Odyssey runs with low latency.
What if my payment for 12 hours a day working is 7 $ for the whole daay xD !
Hello, my non-american fellow!👋
Then a PC is the least of your problems!
Still rocking my 1070. Upgraded to a 12100f cpu though which gives me a bit more performance than I had before. Pc parts are so expensive these days. 2016-2018 was a fun time during pascals glory days when things seemed fairly priced.
When I started my first job the minimum wage was 75 cents an hour. Gas was 12 cents a gal. Life was great! I'd be happy making 11 bucks an hour now.
Slave to capitalism
Would you be happy spending heaps more proportionally for gas, food and rent as well?
@@OleNesie That's the joke, they are talking from the perspective of one of the old goons in charge of deciding minimum wage who grew up in the 1950s and have voted against raising the national minimum countless times.
@@samuelthorngren6346 If you aren't happy with your pay then go somewhere else where they pay more. Pure and simple. That's what I did 55 years ago.
@@trainmaster0217 I am, but the whole "I'd be happy making 11 bucks an hour now." screams that you have no self-respect and see youself as a slave.
Greg you are the man! Thanks for the OEM keys. Just in time for my new build
minimum wage should be enough for a family of 4 to live comfortably. 350$ a week isnt enough
In this day and age no it's not. You can barely get by with 600 a week these days and that's only a family of 3
I went and looked back at my FS and TS scores when I still ran a GTX 970 FS averaged around 11700 and TS was 4500 - but I was running a 5930k w/ 2400 c10 DDR4. In all that x79 is still doing ok but is holding back in some areas. I have seen deals on r/Hardwareswap offloading used Haswell-e and Broadwell-e for steals, so yes if you parts hunt you can always find some good deals - so really not bad for the pricepoint you ran with (On the 970 I would aim for the Asus Strix variant as it was a strong card when I ran it for a few years before moving up to a 1080ti that I am still running in an x99/6900k build).
I have a Beelink SER5 with the Ryzen 5 5560H in it that is comparable to this, but I bought it for $300 and I didn't have to get into a Craigslist/Facebook Marketplace alleyway knife fight to get it. Also, it came to me clean. It also just clips to the back of my TV, so I have more room for the DVDs I am not going to play anytime soon inside the TV stand. Yay!
I had that exact GPU! It was the first proper graphics card I ever bought. I then went to a 1070ti, then a 5700xt and now a 2080ti liquid cooled in a Corsair ONE.
Can't bring a generator but I do bring a UPS with me when I pick-up a PC or other electronics. Makes testing out in public pretty easy.
I got my PS4 from a guy on Craigslist. He seemed desperate to sell it. Probably stolen, but it was a good deal. I brought a monitor, HDMI cable, surge protector, extension cord and met him at a gas station. There are places around the outside to plug stuff in. Checked it right there beside the parking lot. Turned out to be a good one and I still use it even now. Definitely test electronics before buying them.
As someone who just had a system kind of like this I did not feel the need to upgrade, just stumbled on some parts that was to good to pass up so I upgraded but planning to make some money selling my old parts put together like you got here.
I am getting ready to throw together a PC like this from spare parts: Asus Prime H270, Intel Core i7-7700, 16GB DDR4, GTX-970
We went from 9'ish euros per hour here in Germany to 12€/h minimum wage in just the last half of 2022 so that was pretty exciting.
That is a big increase. We don’t have minimum wage laws in Sweden as unions negotiate the wages and my wage only increased by 1.8% in 2022 to about 12€ before taxes (130 Swedish Kronor) And the inflation on food is at 17%. At least I don’t need any tech as I bought a lot in 2021 but for tech the inflation has been about 30%.
The first time I seriously gamed on my gaming PC was when I had an AMD fx 8300 installed. Me and my dad changed out the cpu and mobo for an Asrock board with an i7 4770 I got, since my old mobo broke. If anyone's wondering how I broke my system, it's because I turned off my pc during an update when I had to leave to somewhere in a rush. Both budget CPUs worked really good in all my games I played throughout the years. I've always been content with what I have.
Recently I upgraded my rig thinking my old motherboard broke. Now my computer has an i5 10400f CPU and a MSI z490 motherboard. I could have saved my money and realized earlier that my PC wouldn't turn on just because my power supply broke, but I'm glad I upgraded anyways. Skyrim ultra-modded runs great on my new processor. I also plan to upgrade to a higher-core 11th gen CPU later down the road.
Btw I've been a fan of your channel for a long while now. This video was really cool and I enjoyed watching it, like I have with all of your older videos I've seen
Internally, this is extremely close to my main Unraid build. I wouldn't necessarily call it an advantage, but at the very least it's solid hardware that can find another purpose down the road.
I had that same evga 970. It lasted me 4 years and played esports titles just fine. Im currently on a 3080 but i gave the 970 to my cousin who plays valorant and roblox and its still chugging along just fine for that
Respectively talks about minimum wage and makes a rig someone on a min wage could work towards saving for. What a legend. Much respect mate.
The biggest advantage to PC building, ESPECIALLY in this budget range is upgradeability, but not how you're thinking as you read that. Mobo is a dead end for processors? WHO CARES get another one. The whole thing about PCs is individual components, or groups of components are upgradeable. Yeah mobo/cpu/ram are commonly needed to upgrade together until you get to AM4, but that means your case, power, storage and everything else is ready. Compared to a console that if anything breaks or it cant run the games you want, you're stuck.
I went from a 15 year old build that wouldn't POST to a functional computer for $100 back in 2018. A complete 3570k, mobo, ram and cooler for that $100 got me running again, and yeah it was slow but I got it overclocked to 4.6?ghz or so which was fun. Pretty quickly I grabbed a $100 Rx580 because the GPU with 1gb of Vram couldn't do much. But for $200 in 2018 it was awesome.
Heck now Im up to a 5800X3D, RX6600XT and new psu and 32gb of ram and I stream as well. Still in this old case. I really should get a newer case, but theres nothing really that I like, so it works just fine. I added a second 140mm front fan and everything stays cool. GPU is 70c absolute max in gaming and CPU is usually 80c. The only upgrade I really need is a cpu cooler.
that pc can be upgraded to a x79 xeon 1680 v2 overclocked and paired with a 2080ti to make a system that will play modern games smoothly. run one myself is around same as a i7 9700k for specs
If you’re curious about what Greg is talking about at the start, I really want to recommend you read a book by Barbara Ehrenreich called “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” it’s a great book that talks about how workers are being destroyed.
Loved that it posted as an ncix machine, my headcannon is now officially that Linus had a part in this years ago
I love that you did this. The second hand market is a goldmine!!
I still wrecking with i7 2600 gtx 1070 and 16 gb. It still works well. People who really on a tight budget systems like this means the world to them.
I would recommend checking ebay for "Upgrade kits". In my country I can get a Ryzen 5 5500, B450 motherboard and 16GB 3200 MHz RAM for 275 bucks and less!
Here in my country phillipines, I work as content moderator on a BPO company. 8 hours of work will be only $14.69 (we work as standard 8 hours a day). That's almost 2 usd per hour. But still manage to build $800 pc for 3 months.
and yeah video call works too before buying the rig. let him do benchmarks etc.
I recently sold this (not this exactly) motherboard and CPU as a combo. It served very well.
I had a friend running on an A10 5800k + gtx 660, gifted him an i5 3570k/h77/gtx 970 in a more modern case (Antec DF600). He already had 16gb of 1600 ram and Sata SSD + HDD and a Corsair TX650M.
I know it's more than a sidegrade, but the cpu is significantly faster and the gpu allows him to be more than fine with older titles and/or some sim racing...dirt rally 1.0/2.0 still run easy on that combo; that case and psu will allow eventual future upgrades.. we'll see down the line once windows 10 goes EOL.
I'm literally finishing up. Build very similar to this. Amd platform with fx 6300. I even have that same cooler. But I unfortunately threw away the fan because it was not working. Unfortunately I threw away the plastic brackets that go with it. So... If you are looking to get rid of those brackets. I could take those off your hands haha
I always meet at a public library when selling my pc builds. I have a 8" monitor, keyboard, mouse, and the associated cables.
I suppose if you're going to buy a pre built computer listed for gaming is this may be a good option. You can get an rx580 8gb for under $100 on eBay, a 12th gen i3 12100 for 70, a motherboard for 60, and a 16gb kit of ddr4 ram for under 45 on Amazon. Or, if you want to be real cheap you can get the rx 580, and pick up a Dell optiplex 790, pop a normal atx PSU in it and call it a day. You can still get more than adequate performance from an i7 2600 and ddr3 ram with a good gpu.
Although I have been so lucky and fortunate to have grown away from the budget PC world, it still brings back great memories and love for when I was scrounging for the best hardware I could afford. Stay humble and enjoy what you have. It was as exciting then as it is now.
I ❤️ optical drives. I built a new PC earlier this year and my niece new case has no space to mount an optical drive. I bought a USB c blu ray drive (I like to skip the previews. PC movie watching is king if you hate sitting thru 30 minutes of previews) because my 42 inch tv plugs right into my GPU, and I still have valuable things on DVD's. I'm not a caveman, but I use optical media.
Nice vid I went from a 2nd hand pc with a i7 8700k and a Gtx 1080 to my new Pc I have now and built myself which is a i7 10700k and a 3080 OC 12GB
I've always found budget pc's more fun to put together then high end ones. It forces you to be more creative
CPU car testing solution. Ac/Dc power converter solves the problem. Can be used for more than CPU testing.
Just a note, you can get the HP Z440 for $137 with a E5 1650v3 (Haswell, and only gives up 100mhz to the Ivy Bridge i7 here) and a 700w power supply. (*see below for source to cheap new parts)
4x4GB DDR4 is pretty cheap, like $20
NVMe 1TB with DRAM is $60, (like a Silicon Power A80) and an adapter to the PCI-e slot is only $15 max (do try to find a x4 adapter and use a x4 slot)
Video Card is anything from a 1070- 1080, maybe a 2060 or RX6600 for $100-160. If you can score a 1060 6GB for $80 it will beat up on that 970.
* or look for the Envindia motherboard on Ali XPress, $36 + 16 shipping for X99. Try the E5-1650v3 (unlocked processor, can overclock)
wow 1080p 60fps here we come
@greg_salazar0465 me too, it's called a report button